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Best Long Post-Canon Fanfics

Post-Canon fanfics from 50k to 100k words — full novel length with room for slow development. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Post-Canon 20 long fics Avg 67,156 words 50,000–100,000 words

Top 20 Long Post-Canon Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with post-canon and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.

1

Question of the Day

by wilmonstan12345

Harris launches a new series for the Centaurs' social media: having the team answer his question of the day! This follows the season after The Long Game, when Shane joins the team on their road to the Stanley Cup, as they answer questions like who's the hottest/funniest/most perceptive Centaur, diff

38,276 kudos 50,205 words 45/45 chapters Mature Complete
2

sub-culture

by palmviolet

“Is he whining about Eddie being mean to him again?” Robin is leaning in the doorway, eating a leftover slice that’s probably cold by now. “You talk about him more than you talk about girls, Steve, it’s getting concerning. Anyone would think you had a crush.”or, steve is pretty convinced eddie now h

29,278 kudos 60,702 words 13/13 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
3

Trust Fall (And Welcoming Arms)

by SpangleBangle

Life goes on after the Foxes win the championship, and for Andrew and Neil it's uncharted territory with only each other for guides. Maybe it's time to put away some of those hard edges, and learn how to touch more softly, and speak more honestly. And if they falter, they have their family to help t

12,572 kudos 84,557 words 13/13 chapters Explicit
4

Chained

by maquira

Harry accidentally time travels to 1979, where he gets captured by the Order of the Phoenix. There's a catch — from the moment they set eyes on Harry's Dark Mark, they despise him.* “Finally awake… Death Eater?” the man spat spitefully. Harry never would have imagined meeting like this. The words

10,666 kudos 71,321 words 18/? chapters Mature
5

awake and (un)afraid, asleep or-

by driedupwishes

“You,” Shoto says, picking his head up from where his screen is filled with The Worst Photograph Ever, curtesy of Shinsou, Jiro, Kaminari, his brother, and nearly everyone they know. “You are so dead to me.”Kirishima blinks, mouth half open while Izuku mutters oh god, it’s too late, isn’t it on the

7,730 kudos 54,524 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
6

A Home for Flowers

by faufaren

The Hero of this era is a lot more... wild than they expect.

6,719 kudos 55,642 words 11/11 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
7

Body of Memory

by glorious_spoon

After a patrol gone very wrong, Alec Lightwood comes to in the infirmary with no memory of the past three years, and that turns out to be just the beginning of his problems. There's an ominous plot afoot, a possible traitor at the Institute, and he's pretty sure that he ought to remember the handsom

6,302 kudos 57,154 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
8

But I guess that's love (I can't pretend)

by 99MillionMiles

“I'd like to inform you that, according to our instructions, we'll start tomorrow at 9 a.m. I suggest we put up a more...united front, or else I suspect we won't appear very believable as a couple."Inexplicably, Gavin smirked at that."Trust me, Barbie", he nodded, "we will."Or: the Gavin/Connor unde

5,827 kudos 89,546 words 15/15 chapters Mature Complete
9

When Is a Monster Not a Monster?

by wincestation

“You can ask me, you know.” Tyler stated eventually.“Ask you what?”“Anything,” such a simple word, spoken with such compuser, and yet Wednesday could hear the underlying tremble in it. “That’s why you’re here, isn’t it?”Wednesday huffed. “How do you know? Maybe I just missed the Hyde.”As the words l

4,663 kudos 50,303 words 20/20 chapters Explicit Complete
10

Futaba and Yusuke Make a Doujinshi

by OpheliaDusk

Futaba decides to take Comiket by storm or die trying. Yusuke just wants it in writing that he's going to be paid for this.

4,363 kudos 62,673 words 15/15 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
11

Lay Your Bones

by LadyOrpheus

Footsteps pad down the hall and past the stairs. Actual footsteps. Verin can’t remember the last time he saw Essek walk on his own two feet. He feels a twisted knot form beneath his sternum; something isn’t right. Thinking only of justice and restoring his family's honor after Essek's betrayal, Veri

2,179 kudos 53,587 words 7/7 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
12

Colder, Yet Colder

by doyouhearthunder

A chill has entered Noelle Holiday, crawling under her skin through a dream.A presence has taken over Kris Dreemurr, residing inside them like an uninvited guest.Death has come to Hometown, sneaking in with the first eager fingers of winter.The seasons are changing, and the light is running low...

1,609 kudos 81,811 words 29/29 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
13

Starting Anew

by SkyeBean

In the months post-season 3, the Hargreeves siblings are trying to adjust to this new world. They get jobs, and move in together, and start learning to live without their powers.And Five has to go to high school.

1,512 kudos 65,339 words 20/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
14

The Machinery of Night

by stickypearls

It’s definitely stupid to sleep across from an undead cannibal, but Lucy is too tired for safety regulations. If he wants to make jerky out of her ass cheeks, he will.But he probably won’t. Lucy has noticed that something has been decidedly less callous about his behavior, ever since she saved him.

1,500 kudos 63,085 words 29/29 chapters Explicit Complete
15

The Assassin With the Heart of Gold

by MelissaMcEagle

It's been eight years since Shiota Nagisa last stepped foot in Japan. But when his job as an assassin brings him back to his home country, everything is not as it seems. When the job goes awry, can Class E reunite in time to save him?

1,285 kudos 90,569 words 18/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
16

The Three Heirs of Elu

by Clarissa_23

After the Final Battle against Morgoth ended in a catastrophe, the three surviving grandsons of Finwe made a deal with Eru to go back in time so they could defeat Morgoth and Sauron before the fallen Vala and corrupted Maia bring harm to the ones they love and care for. However, Eru seemed to have

620 kudos 59,824 words 34/? chapters Mature
17

Stray Cat

by BeepBeepBoop333

It wasn’t a stirge or a deathfang, Gale choking down a gasp at the humanoid figure madly lapping and guzzling the bowl of blood. It was a vampire. When Gale becomes aware of a creature targeting the infestation of necrotic rats plaguing his store, his eager brain fixates on the question of what bein

434 kudos 91,813 words 39/? chapters Mature
18

More Than Life Itself

by Parthenon226

Set two years after S15.Derek comes back to the BAU. Spencer has a steady boyfriend.A lot of shit has to happen before they finally find their way to each other.

291 kudos 55,986 words 13/? chapters Explicit
19

You lose your way, just take my hand

by sandnay

Eight years have passed since El disappeared, but Mike never recovered. Living as a writer, he is still stuck in the past, isolating himself and seeking comfort in alcohol. Far from Hawkins, El carries secrets, guilt, and the hope that there’s still a place for her. Or Mike never forgot Eleven, and

273 kudos 92,219 words 21/? chapters Explicit
20

As you were, as you've always been.

by Keeperofate

It's been nearly ten years since Ryou Bakura last wore the Millennium Ring, and time has done nothing to quell his ache for answers. Working and studying in egypt, he starts finding himself pulled towards an artifact found at the dig site near Kul Elna, and what he thought were nightmares soon revea

169 kudos 52,253 words 12/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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About Post-Canon

Set after the source material's final page or episode, these stories answer the question every finale leaves behind: and then what? Post-canon fic ranges from epilogue-adjacent vignettes to decades-spanning continuations that become fandom canon themselves.

Endings are where canon stops and fandom refuses to; readers want the wedding after the war, the rebuilding after the finale, and the proof that the characters' lives kept going.

Common scenarios: The crew's first peaceful year after the final battle, or a twenty-years-later check-in on characters last seen as teenagers.

About This List

62,673
median words
50%
complete
38,276
top kudos
~4.2 hours
median read time

This list of 20long Post-Canon fanfics spans 1,343,113 total words. Kudos range from 169 on the newest entries to 38,276 on the most established. 50% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (9 of 20 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Post-Canon · Canon Compliant · Angst · Future Fic · Canon-Typical Violence.

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